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UNINA9910794520603321 |
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Osius Ted |
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Nothing is impossible : America's reconciliation with Vietnam / / Ted Osius, John Kerry |
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New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2021] |
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©2021 |
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1-9788-2517-X |
1-9788-2519-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (357 pages) |
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Ambassadors - United States |
United States Foreign relations Vietnam |
Vietnam Foreign relations United States |
United States Foreign relations 1989- |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Cover -- Praise for Nothing Is Impossible -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Photographs -- Foreword by John Kerry -- Preface: Biên Hòa Cemetery -- A Note on the Text -- 1. An Improbable Friendship -- 2. A Time to Heal and a Time to Build -- 3. The Story of Pete Peterson -- 4. David and Goliath -- 5. The Legacies of War -- 6. Think Unthinkable Thoughts -- 7. Diplomacy from a Bicycle Seat -- 8. Châu, Khiết, and the Students of Vietnam -- 9. China and the Trans-Pacific Partnership -- 10. The Communist Party -- 11. The Notorious RBG -- 12. A New Journey -- 13. A New President -- 14. Ditches and Tree Roots -- Epilogue: Reconciliation -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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"Today Vietnam is one of America's strongest international partners, with a thriving economy and a population that welcomes American visitors. How that relationship was formed is a twenty-year story of daring diplomacy and a careful thawing of tensions between the two countries after a lengthy war that cost nearly 60,000 American and more than two million Vietnamese lives. Ted Osius, former ambassador during the Obama Administration, offers a vivid account, starting in the |
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1990s, of the various forms of diplomacy that made this reconciliation possible. He considers the leaders who put aside past traumas to work on creating a brighter future, including senators John McCain and John Kerry, two Vietnam veterans and ideological opponents who set aside their differences for a greater cause, and Pete Peterson-the former POW who became the first U.S. ambassador to a new Vietnam. Osius also draws upon his own experiences working first-hand with various Vietnamese leaders and traveling the country on bicycle to spotlight the ordinary Vietnamese people who have helped bring about their nation's extraordinary renaissance. With a foreword by former Secretary of State John Kerry, Nothing is Impossible tells an inspiring story of how international diplomacy can create a better world"-- |
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